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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: aloud as he heaved upon the tackle. But the work went none
the less briskly forward; chests, men, and bundles were got
over the side with alacrity; the boat was shoved off; it moved
out of the long shadow of the Flying Scud, and its bows were
pointed at the passage.
So much, then, was accomplished. The sham wreck had
passed muster; they were clear of her, they were safe away; and
the water widened between them and her damning evidences.
On the other hand, they were drawing nearer to the ship of war,
which might very well prove to be their prison and a hangman's
cart to bear them to the gallows--of which they had not yet
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